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A friend of mine called my attention to the site about a month ago, since then I have read countless articles and been infected by Inspire Fever. After my friend and I have decided to rebuild the Inspire, I am continuously printing the parts. After 193 hours of 3D printing I printed all the parts for an Inspire. We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude and thanks to all the contributors for this great project and for providing us with the print files and information to make this replica available.

I printed all parts from PLA with a layer of 0,1mm. Printed with a JG Aurora A3 which delivers really outstanding parts.

Inventor76,It is very good to have you here. Your parts look great. I suggest you to read the dairies and watch all the pictures as most as you can before start assembling. Also, feel free to ask questions. Please watch the attached files and consider using those armlinklocks. They are adjustable. Welcome!Victor

@BioethicalThank you for your welcome! Thanks for the advice, i will print out the parts from your link and use them. I have looked closely at all the building instructions and hope to know everything I need to build the clone. If i have any questions, I will be happy to ask them here.

The start of the assembly is done, the first parts are assembled together. For the "leg mover plate" I made brass sleeves which fit exactly for a 3mm shaft and can hold them without backlash. The microswitch was also equipped with cables and mounted in its place. Today some parts have arrived again to continue the next steps in construction. Since I would like to make all the parts in my own production, I am also busy designing the base plate and the covers and preparing them for 3D printing in the background. As soon as there are useful results, I will put them here for download.

Inventor76, I see that you are very advanced in the process. I suggest that you test the servo motor, leveler and micro switches before assembling everything. Use a finger of your hand to try the micros while the servo motor is moving up and down, just to make sure that all is well configured and no accidents happen when everything is completely assembled. The servo is strong enough to break its own 3d printed base if a micro is loose or works bad, believe me.It would be good idea to use slim wires in different colors in order to make easier your configurations.

I hope that you have success in designing the canvasses or covers. I would be very glad to print them up.

After countless hours of autocad refreshment, the first results are now available with the self-designed cover. There are still a few problems to solve, but hopefully this will happen in the next few days.

After many more hours of Autocad the first satisfactory design is ready and last night I printed the first part of the canopy. The result wasn't that bad. I printed the canopy with 2mm wall thickness which is sufficient in strength. I printed with transparent PLA because I want to backlight the canopy to give it the right color. For the first try not bad, a few small adjustments I still have to make so that it fits better and then the next parts will be printed.

The last few days a lot has happened again. I have traced and printed a base plate and the next canopies I have printed in the meantime. I have printed them lying and standing and I think they become more beautiful and accurate standing. Apart from that, printing is much faster. Now comes the cladding around the base plate and the connecting rod between base plate and upper part.

As the next step I will take a nice and slow step on the electronics and arms.

After a short break I continue with my Inspire project. The electronics for the lifting mechanism have been installed, the software has been adapted to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Next, the outriggers with the motors are coming up and I'm still thinking about how to design the LED at the outriggers, because I don't want to use conventional LEDs but WS2812b.

I don't know which switch to use on the remote yet. I tested the function with a servo tester. But thank you for the tip to test the lifting mechanism first and not just when everything is finished. That was very helpful.

You could use a two steps switch (O-1-2) switch or a turn on knob in your remote control. I like the turn on knob because I can stop the arms movement somewhere between the limits (end stops), by other hand, I'm not quite sure if the switch allows you to do that.

The next steps have been taken and the first test flight is not much more in the way. The outriggers with the motors are assembled, everything is wired and connected, as flight controller I have a Naza V2. LED´s on the outriggers are now WS2812b. But I still have to play the necessary software in the Arduino. I didn't mount 4 single ESC´s in my arms but a 4 in 1 on the back. Unfortunately I made a mistake when installing the voltage regulator, I had set the voltage too high and so the servo for the lifting mechanism went up in smoke. Meanwhile it has been changed and everything is working perfectly again. Now just make the last settings on the Naza and the remote control, hope for better weather and then comes the first test flight.